this is the dublin years of live from berlin over half a 1000000 people in germany back under lockdown mass testing begins in western german districts links to a new corona virus outbreak the new restrictions are causing tensions with some residents kept behind fences and police being called in to enforce the rules also on the program hosting his polish counterpart u.s. president donald trump again targets germany trump says some of the thousands of u.s. troops he's pulling out of germany may be bound for poland. and 70 years after the

korean war as 1st shots were fired we meet some koreans who fall never to reconcile with the enemy next door. i'm told me a lot of welcome to the program authorities in germany state of north rhine-westphalia conducting mass coronavirus testing after they reimpose local lockdowns the restrictions affect hundreds of thousands of people in the districts of fire and off i'm good to slow and follow a major virus outbreak at a meat processing plant and as the summer holiday season gets underway all the parts of germany and europe are imposing travel bans on the affected region. this is what it looks like when the coronavirus restrictions back long lines have formed outside the 2. facilities in the district of good has little the new restrictions

here and in neighboring valen doff took effect at midnight the mass testing follows a huge corona virus outbreak at tunis slaughterhouse where more than 1500 workers have contracted kovac 19 now some 600000 people are affected by the restrictions good as it was met told d.w. he's furious. group is a company of term you're so angry with the system behind off with groups the system of sub sub sub contractors which is totally in trouble in transparent people had to put up with long waits to get tested. i want to get tested and do my bit to help find out whether we're all infected hearing go to slow or not. we want to travel to be very err on saturday and the condition is to present a negative coronavirus test so that's our goal today indeed with some

a vacation about to begin officials in popular destinations like bavaria say good as new residents are not welcome in lest they show proof of testing negative for the virus neighboring austria has gone even further targeting germany's most populous state. our neighbor germany with its state of north and the failure has shown how quickly the situation can turn dramatically so we were there for forced to issue a level 5 travel warning for the state or more we hope of course that the situation there were quickly improved and that there won't be a further spread across germany. to secure. overall numbers are still low in germany but the latest local outbreaks of causing concern the meat processing industry in particular is under pressure employees living conditions are being blamed for the spread of the virus 23 workers have tested positive at the reason health plant gemini's biggest poultry plant where

mass testing of every 1000 workers got underway today. u.s. president donald trump says some of the u.s. troops to be withdrawn from germany will probably be moved to poland made the statement during a white house visit by his polish counterpart andree duda a staunch ally of the us president today is the 1st foreign leader to visit the united states during the coronavirus pandemic he's running for reelection on sunday . news washington bureau chief alexander phenomena joins us from the white house rose garden looks under how likely are we to see u.s. troops moved from germany to poland or is there something else at play here. well at 1st president was quite big during that press conference saying that poland have had asked for more u.s. troops and that they will probably be moving from germany to poland but then he got

more precise more a more specific saying that the u.s. is going to reduce u.s. troops in germany some of them are going home some of them are will be going to different places and one of the places will be whole and so he seems to have made his mind and this announcement was a huge win for the polish president who's government is very eager to receive more u.s. troops and it's of course a punishment of germany and president trump once again criticize germany for not spending enough on defense. donald trump also said the u.s. will only be satisfied when all nato members pay what he calls their fair share into the alliance are made to members. really not pulling their weight. well actually according to nato secretary general told more and more a member states are increasing their efforts to meet those goals when we talk

about germany however germany's far away from reaching this goal the german government that it's going to be reach and 2031 but when president criticize germany on states saying that they are delinquent i think that this is of wrong wording because those states do not own any money to nato and they just not meeting or not are not ready to meet the goals that they set themselves and the 2 leaders trump and also discussed possible u.s. investments in nuclear energy in poland what's that supposed to look like. well we know that poland is very interested to get the last cold dependent there are going to start to buy a liquid gas from you as and they are also very eager to build their 1st nuclear power plant and the you as seems to be determined to help and this is of course

this cooperation will be a huge win for the polish president here ok because alexandra from naaman from the white house thank you. let's take a look now at some other stories from around the world. the u.s. has recorded its biggest daily increase in cases since the pandemic began new infections are climbing sharply in several states including texas florida and i resigned i shares on wall street plunged on wednesday i mean new fears about 90. 3 white men have been indicted for murder in the killing of aubrey in the u.s. state of georgia 4 months ago. 3 an african american was gunned down while jogging through a suburban neighborhood. the german pharmaceutical company buyer has agreed to pay up to $10900000000.00 to settle a lawsuit over the we kill a round up since it bought monsanto which manufactures the herbicide bio has fears

numerous lawsuits in the u.s. over to the products causes cancer. their lines of dancer has agreed a 500000000 euro cost cutting deal with its cabin crew union the measures to help the carrier through the pandemic come ahead of a shareholder vote on whether to approve the german government's 9000000000 euro rescue package for the airline. a 70 years ago today communist north korea invaded the u.s. backed south starting the korean war 3 years of bloody fighting ended in 1953 not with a peace treaty but only a truce meaning that the war is technically ongoing and animosities between the 2 neighbors continue to this day the latest tensions were sparked when anti north activists in the south began launching balloons carrying propaganda leaflets over the border urging north koreans to overthrow their leadership now as our next

report shows people on both sides say they'll never reconcile with each other. after 70 years korean unification still exists only on paper at an anti us protest in seoul we meet a former spy from north korea park he song unmasked in 1962 he spent 27 years in prison and says he's now stuck in south korea a country that is not his home which it i've been here for 58 years officially i'm a resident of south korea but my loyalty lies with north korea the democratic people's republic of korea. parks family members live in the north if they're still alive if there's one thing he can't abide it's people sending anti north korea flyers over the border. to their low

lifes how is the north supposed to put up with that money if they. don't the man sending the flyers is also named park and he's also from north korea but he despises kim jong un's regime and wants it overthrown. the activist has found refuge in south korea but even here he's under constant police surveillance he's seen as a troublemaker and potential target for an attack he agrees to meet us at this playground where he feels it's safe to talk. the north koreans need to know that the grandfather of kim jong un and his sister started the korean war that's why i've produced the special brochure for the 70th anniversary i will send it over in the coming days it depends on the wind. one of park's actions in late may prompted the north to escalate. yang blew up an

inter korean leader as an office just north of the border to prevent even more trouble the south now wants to stop park's activities to he says he's not afraid of either side so here's what i would consider it an honor to be assassinated by kim jong un himself out of date a few nights ago park sent his balloon with the brochures northwards but the winds were not favorable and his delivery fell from the sky above south korea. this group of former prisoners from north korea is happy and did parky song a former spy is one of them the men gather at this house in seoul run by kwan or he . the group has 14 members south korea calls them unconverted prisoners even though all have been out of prison for a year. i think even those north

koreans who were imprisoned after the war and have paid their dues should be treated as prisoners of war and allowed to return to the north. but that's a nonstarter for the south and so the men are left with their memories and their belief that north korea is paradise. i don't regret coming to south korea as a spy for one second sure it cost me my youth but i don't mind. these men were released early from prison that's something that cannot be said about their south korean counterparts in the north. africa's 1st clinical trial in $1000.00 vaccine is underway the vaccine being tested by research as from oxford and vets university in johannesburg is one of more than $140.00 being

developed around the globe usually years of research and development are required to reach the human trial stage but scientists the world over racing to produce a safe and effective vaccine 1st shot filled with hope this unemployed young man is taking a risk so that others might benefit. i fidgeted scared. by my own little once we've. seen her. 10 friends and i just want to believe that this is the 1st covert 19 vaccine trial being done on humans on the african continent the vaccine is initially being tested on a small number of people researchers hope it will stimulate their immune systems to produce antibodies against the virus is it by the stones form part of what's called

in the group one region group b. is a small group of individuals we've been trying to understand reporting issues to push issues safety of the vaccine especially in terms of what could be called side effects and secondly she's always working one thing and is biased against the sea. but even if the results are positive the vaccine wouldn't eradicate the virus just slow it's spread among the population south africa has been particularly badly hit by the pandemic with more than 100000 confirmed cases the highest in all of africa to make matters worse the country was already slipping into recession before the virus hit now more than 30 percent of people are unemployed. by getting involved in vaccine trials south africa hopes to at least ensure it can get access to an affordable vaccine and not be left waiting at the back of the queue. coming up an intimate trip in our documentary the russians remember the latest news

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